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'Greatest all-around player': Martín Dihigo was Shohei Ohtani decades before Angels' MVP candidate
Martín Dihigo is the only player enshrined in baseball Halls of Fame in at least four countries: the U.S., Cuba, Mexico and the Dominican Republic. He was a two-way star decades before Shohei Ohtani.
Cesar BriosoUSA TODAY
Sept. 15, 2022Updated Sept. 25, 2022, 11:47 a.m. ET
Having outlasted his counterpart on the mound in the September heat, the right-handed hurler stepped to the plate in the ninth inning, the score knotted at 1-1.
With a smooth swing, he drove the ball over the distant center-field wall for a walk-off home run.